A Survey of the Woman Problem: From the German of Rosa Mayreder

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G. H. Doran Company, 1913 - Всего страниц: 275
 

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Стр. 48 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children ; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Стр. 210 - Einer Einzigen angehören, Einen Einzigen verehren, Wie vereint es Herz und Sinn! Lida! Glück der nächsten Nähe, William! Stern der schönsten Höhe, Euch verdank ich, was ich bin ; Tag' und Jahre sind verschwunden, Und doch ruht auf jenen Stunden Meines Wertes Vollgewinn.
Стр. 10 - By showing us that under varying conditions men and women are, within certain limits, indefinitely modifiable, a precise knowledge of the actual facts of the life of men and women forbids us to dogmatise rigidly concerning the respective spheres of men and women.
Стр. 10 - ... female organism under different conditions. There is but one tribunal whose sentence is final and without appeal. Only Nature can pronounce concerning the legitimacy of social modifications. The sentence may be sterility or death, but no other tribunal, no appeal to...
Стр. 248 - Christ, with whom, in the liberty which he proclaimed, there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor free, neither male nor female, but all are one in Him.
Стр. 8 - A man is a man even to his thumbs, and a woman is a woman down to her little toes.
Стр. 8 - (" Woman and the Cell "), in the following words : " Woman is woman only by her sexual glands ; all the peculiarities of her body and mind, of her nutrition and her nervous activity, the sweet delicacy and roundness of her limbs, the peculiar formation of the pelvis, the development of the breasts, the continuance of the high voice, that beautiful ornament of hair on her head, with the scarcely perceptible soft down on the rest of the skin — then, again...
Стр. 250 - ... from the end of the eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century, as is shown by an index (see table 35) worked out by Deane and Cole12.
Стр. 10 - We have not succeeded in determining the radical and essential characters of men and women uninfluenced by external modifying conditions. Sometimes a sufficiently wide induction of facts (as in the question of the alleged sexual differences in respiration) suffices to show us what is artificial and what is real ; at...
Стр. 11 - ... conditions. The feminine postulates stability, passive self-dependence, an inclination to be firm and shut off from outside influences (see Feuillet, The Psychology of the Sexes and its Biological Foundation). If we pursue these deductions further, then we may say that the choleric-sanguine temperament presents itself as the masculine, the phlegmatic-lymphatic as the feminine temperament; the male sex embodies the progressive or centrifugal element that renews and transforms the species, the...

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